Johann Wilhelm Ebel

Johann Wilhelm (Johannes) Ebel (born March 4, 1784 in Passenheim , East Prussia, † August 18, 1861 in Ludwigsburg ) was a Lutheran theologian in Königsberg (Prussia) .

origin

Johann Wilhelm Ebel comes from the Neidenburg line of the Ebel family . His grandfather was Pastor Ephraim Ebel and his father was Pastor Johann Jakob Ebel. Johann Wilhelm Ebel was the eldest son from his father's first marriage to Wilhelmine Elisabeth Holdschuer (1761–1801).

Life

Ebel attended the Old Town Latin School in Königsberg and studied at the Albertus University there , where he studied the writings of the theosophist Johann Heinrich Schönherr , among other things . After working as a collaborator , he became pastor in Hermsdorf in 1806 . In 1809 he received his doctorate as Dr. Phil., From 1810 to 1816 he worked as a preacher and religion teacher at the Royal Friedrich College in Königsberg.

Ebel became archdeacon of the old town church in Königsberg in 1816 and from the end of the 1820s, together with pastor Georg Heinrich Diestel , gathered a pietistic community around him. Men and women from the leading families of Königsberg and also from the leading nobility took part in this group, which was later slandered as a mucking movement .

The Australian historian Christopher Clark characterizes the content of Ebel and Diestel's ideas as "marriage counseling based on an eclectic practical theology".

Ebel and Diestel's activities sparked numerous rumors, including that the preachers encouraged licentiousness and extramarital sex, and that two young women died as a result of excessive excitement. This led to an investigation by the Upper President of the Province of Prussia, Theodor von Schön, and a lengthy process that was observed throughout Germany and about which the press reported extensively and controversially. As a result, Ebel and Diestel were deposed of their offices in 1839 and 1842, respectively.

Ebel died on August 18, 1861 in Ludwigsburg, where he had moved with his girlfriend, Countess Ida von der Groeben . Recent record-based reports indicate that those charges have not been proven and that the trials have been conducted with great bias.

family

In 1811 he married Auguste Susanne Leinweber from Quittainen . With her he had the sons Johann Bernhard Leprecht Hermann (1813), Paul Wilhelm Gotthelf Eugen (1815), Ernst Theo Friedrich Johannes (1819) and the daughters Aurora Edeltrud Justine (1818) and Anna Lydia Adalberta (1831).

Fonts (selection)

Heinrich Diestel, Johannes Ebel: Understanding and reason in league with the revelation of God through the recognition of the literal content of the Holy Scriptures - two treatises . Leipzig 1837, 492 pages ( digitized )

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Ebel, Johannes Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1439-1440. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05392-3

Hugo Delff : Ebel, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 519-524. (also to Schönherr and Diestel)

Ulrich Gäbler : History of Pietism: The Pietism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-55348-X , p. 172 f. ( Preview on Google Books )

Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage : HA I, Rep. 76 III, Sect. 2, Dept. XVI, No. 4, Vols. 1 and 2

Bernhard Koerner : German gender book , sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, in: CD-ROM 9, German Gender Book, Volume 65–72. ISBN 3-7980-0409-9 .

Eduard von Hahnenfeld: The religious movement to Königsberg in Prussia in the first half of the nineteenth century and today's church history . Braunsberg 1858 ( digitized version )

Ernst Graf von Kanitz: Enlightenment and file sources about the 1835-42 zu Königsberg i. Pr. Led religious trial . Basel and Ludwigsburg 1862 ( digitized version )

Ernst Graf von Kanitz: A warning in favor of posterity to the historical literature of the present . Basel 1868 ( digitized version )

Paul Konschel: The Königsberg religious trial against Ebel and Diestel (Mucker trial) . Koenigsberg 1909

Bruno Schumacher: Ebel, Johannes Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Koerner : German gender book , sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 102 f.
^ Bernhard Koerner : German gender book , sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 107 f.
↑ Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 486 f.
↑ Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 487.
↑ Ernst Graf von Kanitz: Enlightenment and file sources about the 1835-42 to Königsberg i. Pr. Led religious trial . Basel and Ludwigsburg 1862, p. 462 f

personal data
SURNAME	Ebel, Johann Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ebel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH	Passenheim
DATE OF DEATH	August 18, 1861
Place of death	Ludwigsburg

[1] Bernhard Koerner : German gender book , sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 102 f.

[2] Bernhard Koerner : German gender book , sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 107 f.

[3] Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 486 f.

[4] Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 487.

[5] Ernst Graf von Kanitz: Enlightenment and file sources about the 1835-42 to Königsberg i. Pr. Led religious trial . Basel and Ludwigsburg 1862, p. 462 f